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Faizan Muhammmad

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Dark Destination said:
Who in the world said 80% is needed for A? And 90% for A*?

The syllabus states:

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Now, they clearly say ''PERCENTAGE UNIFORM MARKS''.. not PERCENTAGE!

And, after looking at previous threads, i found out, that they set a specific threshold for A* for a subject..
For example, in Maths, they can set 135/180 as A. In reality, that is 75%.. but the person who gets 135/180 will have a percentage uniform mark of 80% and Hence, will get an A grade, even though his actual percentage is 75%..

Awesome12, showed me a Computer studies FQ file, in which the examiners had answered the questions, and one of the questions was.. about the grade boundary for A*.. and it said that 75-85% is needed for A*. So for some year if they set, 80% as the marks for A*, a person who gets 80% will have a percentage uniform mark of 90%.. and hence, an A*.

So this entire concept of O-Level. A* is NOT at 90%. It's at a percentage uniform mark of 90%.

Also, if they set 160/180 as A* in maths, if someone gets 170.. his percentage uniform mark would be 95%.. even though the actual percentage is not 95 in reality.
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Err.. I knew it already and thought everybody knew it :eek:o_O:confused:
dont your teachers tell you ? :p
 
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Faizan Muhammmad said:
Err.. I knew it already and thought everybody knew it :eek:o_O:confused:
dont your teachers tell you ? :p
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They always say A is at 80. A* is at 90!

The teachers just read this syllabus, and think that that is what is required for A*/A.

But in reality, a subject like ECONOMICS OR ENGLISH, can never have the same A* boundary as say, Maths.
Maths is a high scoring subject. Economics, is more difficult, and requires long essays and stuff. Marks are lost.

So what i don't understand is, that how can we even know what is required for an A? :p Maybe it's so low or something.

The IGCSE thresholds are released, and i found that in Add-Maths it was 93% for A*.. and EM was A* at 75%..

That must mean something.
 
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Dark Destination said:
They always say A is at 80. A* is at 90!

The teachers just read this syllabus, and think that that is what is required for A*/A.

But in reality, a subject like ECONOMICS OR ENGLISH, can never have the same A* boundary as say, Maths.
Maths is a high scoring subject. Economics, is more difficult, and requires long essays and stuff. Marks are lost.

So what i don't understand is, that how can we even know what is required for an A? :p Maybe it's so low or something.

The IGCSE thresholds are released, and i found that in Add-Maths it was 93% for A*.. and EM was A* at 75%..

That must mean something.
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yeah but we know that, dont we ?
 
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How many of u gonna sleep today? ;/
last year i slept as if i wont wake up :p
sleep is the best escape
 
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Faizan Muhammmad said:
CIE office has them in cambridge office
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They used to give them out,e.g my bro and cousins knew their percentages,but they stopped giving them around 4 years ago i think,bcuz of fear that students might get too depressed if their grade is gone by one mark as in B on 79 etc.
 
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asadalam said:
They used to give them out,e.g my bro and cousins knew their percentages,but they stopped giving them around 4 years ago i think,bcuz of fear that students might get too depressed if their grade is gone by one mark as in B on 79 etc.
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actually to avoid recheking
 
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asadalam said:
They used to give them out,e.g my bro and cousins knew their percentages,but they stopped giving them around 4 years ago i think,bcuz of fear that students might get too depressed if their grade is gone by one mark as in B on 79 etc.
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Yes, i know.

So what if someone wants to find percentage now? Do you think they would tell us, if we called british council?
 
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K am tensed about Commerce and Bio. Oh GOD please HELP US!!!

By the way, what are you guys doing to divert your attention from the results?
 
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